fixly

English

Etymology

From fix +‎ -ly.

Adverb

fixly (comparative more fixly, superlative most fixly)

(obsolete) Fixedly.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
  , II.12:
  And when he made the Sunne and fire to be all one, he forgot, that fire doth not tan and blacke those he looketh upon; that wee fixly [translating fixement] looke upon the fire, and that fire consumeth and killeth all plants and hearbs.

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